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Category : Fenians
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Proceedings of the Second National Congress of the Fenian Brotherhood, Held in Cincinnati, Ohio, January, 1865
Author: The Fenian Movement
Author: Theodore William MoodyPublisher: Learning Links
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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To the Fenian Brotherhood of America. Official Report of the Investigating Committee of the Department of Manhattan, Fenian Brotherhood, etc
Author: Fenian Brotherhood of America (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
To the State Centres, Centres, and Members of the Fenian Brotherhood of North America
Author: Fenian Brotherhood of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fenians
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Fenian Brotherhood
Author: Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Fenian Brotherhood, in Joint Convention at Philadelphia, Pa., November 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 & 29, 1868
Author: Fenian Brotherhood. National CongressPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Fenians
Author: Patrick StewardPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572339799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Aspirations of social mobility and anti-Catholic discrimination were the lifeblood of subversive opposition to British rule in Ireland during the mid-nineteenth century. Refugees of the Great Famine who congregated in ethnic enclaves in North America and the United Kingdom supported the militant Fenian Brotherhood and its Dublin-based counterpart, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), in hopes of one day returning to an independent homeland. Despite lackluster leadership, the movement was briefly a credible security threat which impacted the history of nations on both sides of the Atlantic. Inspired by the failed Young Ireland insurrection of 1848 and other nationalist movements on the European continent, the Fenian Brotherhood and the IRB (collectively known as the Fenians) surmised that insurrection was the only path to Irish freedom. By 1865, the Fenians had filled their ranks with battle-tested Irish expatriate veterans of the Union and Confederate armies who were anxious to liberate Ireland. Lofty Fenian ambitions were ultimately compromised by several factors including United States government opposition and the resolution of volunteer Canadian militias who repelled multiple Fenian incursions into New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba. The Fenian legacy is thus multi-faceted. It was a mildly-threatening source of nationalist pride for discouraged Irish expatriates until the organization fulfilled its pledge to violently attack British soldiers and subjects. It also encouraged the confederation of Canadian provinces under the 1867 Dominion Act. In this book, Patrick Steward and Bryan McGovern present the first holistic, multi-national study of the Fenian movement. While utilizing a vast array of previously untapped primary sources, the authors uncover the socio-economic roots of Irish nationalist behavior at the height of the Victorian Period. Concurrently, they trace the progression of Fenian ideals in the grassroots of Young Ireland to its de facto collapse in 1870s. In doing so, the authors change the perception of the Fenians from fanatics who aimlessly attempted to free their homeland to idealists who believed in their cause and fought with a physical and rhetorical force that was not nonsensical and hopeless as some previous accounts have suggested. PATRICK STEWARD works in the Mayo Clinic Development Office in Rochester, Minnesota. He obtained a Ph.D. in Irish History at University of Missouri under the direction of Kerby Miller. Patrick additionally holds two degrees from Tufts University and he was a strategic intelligence analyst at the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington, D.C. early in his professional career. BRYAN MCGOVERN is an associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. He is author of the widely praised 2009 book John Mitchel, Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist and has written various articles, chapters, and book reviews on Irish and Irish-American nationalism.
Proceedings of the First National Convention of the Fenian Brotherhood
Author: Fenian BrotherhoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fenians
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Rebels on the Niagara
Author: Lawrence E. ClinePublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438467532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In what is now largely considered a footnote in history, Americans invaded Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866. The group behind the invasion—the Fenian Brotherhood—was formed in 1858 by Irish nationalists in New York City in order to fight for Irish independence from Britain. At the end of the American Civil War, Fenian leaders attempted to use Irish Americans, many of them combat veterans, to seize Canada and make it the "New Ireland" as a means to force the British from "old" Ireland. New York State was both the epicenter of Fenian leadership and a key support base and staging area for the military operations. Although relatively short-lived and with some of its military operations being somewhere between farce and tragedy, the Fenian Brotherhood had a very important impact on nineteenth-century New York and America, but remains largely forgotten. In Rebels on the Niagara Lawrence E. Cline examines not only the Fenian operations and their impact on Canada, but also the role the United States and New York played in both the initial support for the Fenian movement and its subsequent collapse in America.
To the Fenian Brotherhood of America
Author: Fenian Brotherhood. Department of Manhattan. Investigating CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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